Is Casio Aiming For The Sexter Market With Its Latest Phone?

from the serious-questions dept

"Sexting," or kids taking nude or provocative photos of themselves and sending them around, is one of the moral panics du jour. While some people are working themselves into a lather over it, one can't help but wonder if Casio is trying to pitch its latest mobile handset to the teen sexter market with a couple of YouTube videos called "Sexy girl in the shower" and "Money shot." The videos have since been yanked, but the former touted the handset's waterproofing and 5-megapixel camera by showing -- no prizes for guessing -- a girl using it in the shower to talk and take a photo of herself. We won't get in to the content of the second ad, but suffice to say it's not something very many companies would be too comfortable with. Sure, showing somebody using a phone in the shower sounds like a great way to promote a waterproof handset, but given the sexting uproar, perhaps Casio's timing (and/or judgment) was a little off.

Re: viral advertising

Damn you all to HELL!!!

Casio is going DOWN for this one. As the bible clearly states, the naked human body is the created property of the great noodely one, The Flying Spaghetti Monster. As such, it can only be given to those that have earned the right by sticking phallic appendages into one another and sort of gyrating around a bit while making funny faces for his angry amusement. Casio is promoting the unlicensed sharing of naked bodies in infinitely replicatable digital form, hence Casio is going down. Literally. Into the bowls of hell. With that kid from Webster and Gary Busey's dignity...

you write this article

like naked women taking pictures of themselves in the showers is a bad thing. On the contrary, this sort of behaviour should be encouraged to help make the world, a cleaner and happier place, one shower at a time.

Jesus also receives these text messages

Why doesn't anyone realize all of these dirty messages also go to Jesus. Do you think that just because you use your phone to send a dirty message that Jesus doesn't know what you have done? He knows, and it is a sin. This makes me sick.

Re: Not Just Kids

God is all knowing, all seeing. The alpha and the omega. Everything that ever was, everything that is, and everything that ever will be.
So God knew someday there would be sexting. He took the time to write some rules down.....None of them say anything about sex or sexting! Hmmmmmmmmmmm............

Silly Americans is more like it

Only teens?

I have seen adults (young and older) do this. I was not aware there was an upper age limit to qualify as sexting. Granted the term is only familiar to a large audience due to the teen angle in the news as of late.

Bosna Hersek Havayollari

Hey guys, it seems like you guys do not care about those publicity of the nudity or sexting over the web or phone...so does that mean you guys are ok (comfortable) with your Wife, children or parents (if you guys dont have one now maybe later in the future) to do the same? Dam man, that crap is wrong!